Simple example request

[SevenGameMaker]

I am just starting with ECS and am in need of some help please :

what i have working :
an editor style application, i can create and destroy entities dynamically.
I can also list all of the available components in the world (so can add them to entities in the editor on right click)
I can also list all of the components currently attached to the selected entity as a tree with nodes.

what i need to do next is, when a component is selected from the tree of entities and their components, i want to ImGui draw the component's member variables and be able to manipulate them using imGui controls.

in a perfect world I wont know the of the component, just the name and whatever meta data i can get from the entity.

what i am trying so far.....

define a component structure
struct myInfo { int Id; std::string Name; }

register the structure with flecs for reflection
getECS()->getWorld().component("myInfo")
.member("Id", offsetof(myInfo, Id));
.memberstd::string("Name", offsetof(myInfo, Name));

create an entity and add the component
flecs::entity e = m_World.entity(name);
e.add();

when the entity is displayed in the tree, it has the myInfo component listed in the tree also.

when the component text is selected, all I have available is the flecs::entity and the name of the component.

i want to get the component by name like getComponentByName(flecs::entity, std::string componentname) and then manipulate the Id and Name inside the myInfo component instance.

I assume it has to do with the meta data to access the myInfo data members but I have no idea how to get to that from either the entity or the getComponentByName() which i assume should return a type_id or such that then I can access the meta data with?

for example, if the entities component member is an int then display an int gui control, if it is a float the display a float gui control, etc...

if I can get this figured out then I can continue my learning. thank you in advance for any help!